Title
1960s New Zealand Gisborne Aerial View Port Kaiti Hill Rivers Ships NZ Postcard
Front
A colour aerial photograph looking north-east across the city of Gisborne toward the port and Poverty Bay. The lower half of the frame is filled with residential streets laid out on a regular grid: rows of single-storey timber bungalows and villas with red, green and silver corrugated roofs, set in garden sections with hedges, lawns and mature trees, crossed by straight sealed streets with parked cars. A broad tree-lined avenue runs diagonally through the centre of this district.
Two rivers converge in the middle of the composition. The Taruheru River enters from the left, a broad green-blue waterway fringed with willows and low banks, while the Waimata River enters from the right, its calm surface reflecting the trees along its edge. They join to form the Turanganui River, which runs in a straight channel toward the harbour at the top of the picture. Several bridges span the waterways, including a long low road bridge in the foreground carrying a main route across the river, a second road bridge at centre with white railings, and further crossings upstream. A small landscaped point with a monument or memorial column and lawns lies at the junction of the rivers.
To the right of the river stands the central business district, densely built with two- and three-storey commercial blocks, shops, offices and warehouses in white, cream and red-brick, with red and grey roofs, parked cars lining the streets, and a large multi-storey building with a red facade near the centre. Beyond it commercial and light industrial buildings with long pale roofs extend toward the port.
At the head of the river the inner harbour is visible with wharves, quays, sheds, a crane and moored coastal vessels and fishing boats alongside the stone-walled channel. Further out, at the port proper, a large white and dark-hulled cargo or refrigerated vessel lies berthed at the main wharf, with a second ship and port structures nearby, and a long breakwater and mole extending out into the bay.
Rising behind the port is Kaiti Hill, a large rounded headland of open green pasture with patches of dark pine plantation and native scrub, cut by white access roads winding to the summit and showing pale slip scars on its faces. Further hills continue to the left. To the right the blue-green water of Poverty Bay stretches away to a hazy horizon under a clear pale blue sky. The card has a white border and a semi-matt screened photographic surface.
Back
Printed in green ink at upper left:
“GISBORNE, N.Z. Aerial view of the Port and Kaiti Hill. The rivers Waimata and Taruheru join to form the Turanganui and inner harbour facilities.”
Printed in green script across the lower centre:
“Colourchrome Series”
Printed in green at lower left:
“PHOTOGRAPHY: GLADYS M. GOODALL.”
Printed in green at lower centre:
“W.T. 402”
Printed in green at lower right:
“PRINTED BY WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS LTD.
FOR THE FELICITY CARD CO. LTD.”
The remainder of the reverse is unprinted white stock with no divided-back ruling, stamp box or correspondence lines. There is no stamp, postmark, address or handwritten sender’s message; the card is unused and unposted. Faint scattered specks and light corner toning are present.
Estimated Era
Circa 1960s. The Colourchrome Series produced by Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. for the Felicity Card Co. Ltd. from Gladys M. Goodall photography belongs to the post-war chrome era, and the W.T. 402 serial number falls between the W.T. 284 and W.T. 294 issues and the 1965-dated W.T. 868 card, indicating production in the earlier to middle 1960s. The continental-format card with white border and screened colour process is consistent with printing from about 1960 onward. The scene supports this dating: the townscape remains almost entirely low-rise with no modern high-rise development, the motor cars visible in the streets are of 1950s and early 1960s type, and the port is shown handling conventional break-bulk cargo vessels at the wharves in the period before containerisation and later harbour redevelopment.
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